Congratulations to Katherine Stevenson, leader of the Transforming Course Design project for Math 103 ( Mathematical Methods for Business), who received a CSU Northridge 2008 Honored Faculty Award for Distinguished Teaching. Kate recently reported outstanding final exam results from the project: "Our average score across 12 sections of math 103 on the common final was 70%. There were 428 students taking the exam, and it was commonly graded on Saturday May 10th. The average this term represents a more than a 20 point improvement over last term. The exams over the last three terms have been similar, but of course not identical. However, even assuming the usual variations on exam difficulty, instructors, and spring/fall student differences, this is a significant improvement." You can learn more about the methods used in the course redesign in the podcast on the left side of this page.

Our team members attending the national Redesign Alliance conference in March concluded that many CSU institutions have already implemented the cost reduction strategies used in Course Redesigns led by the National Center for Academic Transformation. (At some campuses, it did appear that the

A joint project team from the CSUMB Library and the School of Information Technology and Communication Design will be developing a course redesign for CST 101, a course in technology and information literacy. The team plans to reduce sections of CST 101 from

Math 103 Lab: It Works

In this podcast, Community Steward, Suzanne Aurilio chats with Kate Stevenson about her Math Lab at CSU Northridge.

Featured Campus Project: CSU San Bernardino

The focus of our project is the transformation of our first-year
experience project, the Gateway Program. We plan to
restructure the program so that the third Gateway-enhanced course that
students take will be a large class (such as PSYCH 100, HSCI 120, or
HIST 142) transformed—through technology and other pedagogical
strategies—from a lecture-based format into inquiry-based courses that
promote active learning and greater teacher-student interaction and are
consistent with the Gateway Program philosophy.

Utilizing the three Gateway-enhanced large classes in Spring 2008 as
part of the Spring 2008 offering will enable us to achieve our learning outcomes at a much
lower cost than the previous approach, which would have us offering sixteen Gateway-enhanced courses in the Spring
2008 capped at 20 students.